This is What Adulthood Really Is...

They tell you to work hard in school so you can get into a good college. In college, they make you study hard to get into a good graduate school. In graduate school, they warn you about getting a good job. Post graduate school they hint at starting a family and settling down. Yes, you work your behind off so you can be a good ol' American citizen.

But do you know what adulthood really is? It's waking up in the morning and taking a vacuum cleaner apart because your dog's hair has clogged the hose and brush. It's taking the tube outside and swinging it so that tubular patches of dog hair fly in the sky for squirrel's to make nests. It's finding enough dog hair in your vacuum cleaner to make a Phyllis Diller wig! And it's going on your hands and knees to clean out the vacuum, only so you can run it again and have to fix it a month later. That is what adulthood really is and those foreshadowing why working hard matters are fat liars. You grow up so you can do meaningless, pointless tasks like cleaning out a vacuum cleaner. That's what growing up is all about.